The Stability of Matter: From Atoms to Stars

The Stability of Matter: From Atoms to Stars.- Lower bound to the energy of complex atoms.- Improved Lower Bound on the Indirect Coulomb Energy.- Letter to the Editor.- Proof of the Stability of Highly Negative Ions in the Absence of the Pauli Principle.- Atomic and Molecular Negative Ions.- Bound on the maximum negative ionization of atoms and molecules.- Approximate Neutrality of Large-Z Ions.- Universal nature of van der Waals forces for Coulomb Systems.- Electron density near the nucleus of a large atom.- Proof of a conjecture about atomic and molecular cores related to Scott's correction.- Asymptotics of Natural and Artificial Atoms in Strong Magnetic Fields.- Ground states of large quantum dots in magnetic fields.- Kinetic Energy Bounds and Their Application to the Stability of Matter.- Inequalities for the Moments of the Eigenvalues of the Schrödinger Hamiltonian and Their Relation to Sobolev Inequalities.- On Semi-Classical Bounds for Eigenvalues of Schrödinger Operators.- The Number of Bound States of One-Body Schroedincer Operators and the Weyl Problem.- Variational Principle for Many-Fermion Systems.- Thomas-fermi and related theories of atoms and molecules.- The Hartree-Fock Theory for Coulomb Systems.- There Are No Unfilled Shells in Unrestricted Hartree-Fock Theory.- Many-Body Atomic Potentials in Thomas-Fermi Theory.- The Positivity of the Pressure in Thomas Fermi Theory.- The Thomas-Fermi-von Weizsäcker Theory of Atoms and Molecules.- Analysis of the Thomas-Fermi-von Weizsäcker Equation for an Infinite Atom Without Electron Repulsion.- The most negative ion in the Thomas-Fermi-von Weizsäcker theory of atoms and molecules.- Bound for the Kinetic Energy of Fermions Which Proves the Stability of Matter.- Stability of Coulomb Systems with Magnetic Fields.- Stability of Coulomb Systems with Magnetic Fields.- Stability of Matter in Magnetic Fields.- The Chandrasekhar Theory of Stellar Collapse as the Limit of Quantum Mechanics.- One-Electron Relativistic

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Walter Thirring, geb. 1927. 1953/54 Member of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies. 1956/57 Visiting Professor am M.I.T., Cambridge, anschließend University of Washington, Seattle. Dann Lehrtätigkeit in Bern und Wien. 1968-71 Direktor des Theoretical Department CERN. Über 200 wissenschaftliche Publikationen, zahlreiche internationale Auszeichnungen, u. a. Eötvös-Medaille 1967, Erwin-Schrödinger-Preis, Max-Planck-Medaille, Ehrendoktorat der Comenius-Universität Bratislava, Henri-Poincare-Preis der Int. Association of Mathematical Physics. Thirrings große Liebe gilt der Musik, und hier besonders der Orgel und der Komposition.